Joachim Fest Speer Quotes & Sayings

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. — Samuel Johnson

I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming. — Jim Thompson

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. — Orison Swett Marden

Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that may
prevent a man from becoming God's representative on earth — Sunday Adelaja

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer. — Brigitte Bardot

And so I step up, int the darkness within; or else the light. — Margaret Atwood

For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well. — B. J. Palmer

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God. — Mother Teresa

We all make assumptions about the world - based on individual experience and cultural background - that affect our judgment of how that balance should look — Sheena Iyengar

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which
her beauty was a part. — Edith Wharton

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident. — Salman Rushdie

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas. — Alan W. Watts